Best Inventions 2005
This camera has won Time Magazines Best Invention of 2005 award.
The bijou camera eliminates the traditional bulk of underwater cameras, measuring a mere 3.5 in. by 5.5 in. and weighing just under 17 oz. But there’s no sacrificing image quality. The SeaLife DC500 captures ultrasharp, high-resolution pictures and overcomes underwater photography challenges including poor light, waterborne particles and quick-moving subjects. And it’s good for a deep dive. The camera is waterproof down to 200 ft. and also has six modes for land.
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Choose Great Frames for your Digital Photos
Press Release:
Digital Light & Color Introduces FRAME EXPLORER for visualizing framing
Cambridge, Mass, October 31, 2005 – Digital Light & Color, Inc. today introduced its Frame Explorer software for visualizing and exploring framing options for photographs and artwork. The new program helps you quickly explore the myriad of mat and frame colors and proportions to achieve the optimum presentation of any image. Frame Explorer can be purchased at www.dlc.com. Availability is set for November 15, 2005. It will also be offered free with a purchase of Picture Window Pro for a limited time.
With Frame Explorer, you display the actual image you want to frame. Then select mat and frame sizes, colors, and textures and view them realistically against the actual background color where you will hang the frame. You can even approximate display lighting conditions. You can choose single, double, or triple matting, square or beveled edges, and rectangular or oval openings as well as different frame widths and profiles. You can quickly and easily explore myriads of options to develop the most effective framing design for your image. When you are happy with your choices you can print the overall design for reference. Frame Explorer also prepares a table listing all the materials and their dimensions.
Frame Explorer is fully color managed. On calibrated monitors, it automatically displays the image and all materials in the monitor’s color space, for maximum color fidelity.
In short, Frame Explorer takes the guesswork out of framing your photographs. It lets you experiment with unconventional combinations and achieve the framing design with the greatest impact.
Frame Explorer is available directly from Digital Light & Color. It can be purchased over the web at www.dl-c.com. The price is $39.95.
Frame Explorer runs on the PC under Windows 98, ME, NT 5.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
About Digital Light & Color
Since its inception in 1993, the goal of Digital Light & Color has been to create and distribute the best possible software for photographers. The company was founded by Jonathan Sachs – the programmer who, in 1982, created the first version of Lotus 1-2-3. In 1994, Digital Light & Color distributed the first copies of its critically acclaimed electronic darkroom software, Picture Window. The company also developed Color Mechanic – an award-winning Photoshop plug-in for making selective color adjustments, and the suite of Profile Mechanic color management tools for monitors, scanners and digital cameras.
Frame Explorer is a trademark of Digital Light & Color. Other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
Photoxel.com Contest
Canadians rejoice! Photoxels have just commenced their Digital Photography Contest.
This is open to legal residents of Canada only so everyone else just move along nothing to see here!
Each Category Winner wins a FUJIFILM FinePix Z1 ultra-compact digital camera.
A Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the 4 Category Winners to win in addition a PANASONIC Lumix DMC-FZ5 and an EPSON Stylus RX602 Photo Printer. Ooooh. Aaaah!
Contest started November 1, 2005 and will end on December 31, 2005 at 12 midnight.
So start snappin eh!
Choose the right lense to improve your photographs
APP.COM has written a nice little tutorial on how to choose the correct lens for taking different types of photographs.
Here are some tips for picking lenses:
Magnificent magnification
Macro, or close-up, lenses let you take phenomenal pictures of flowers or very small objects. Not to be confused with telephoto lenses, which are used to pull in distant subjects, macro lenses focus on objects close to the lens.
The magnification of a macro lens is usually expressed as a ratio. With a 1:1 lens, the object appears life-size in the picture. A 2:1 macro lens doubles an object’s natural size.
You may also see macro lenses expressed as a number, such as +10. The higher the number, the greater the magnification.
They’re also useful for portrait photography. In this case, choose a lens with a greater magnification. This allows you to put some distance between you and your subject.
When using a macro lens, consider using a tripod. Because of the greater need for light, exposure times are longer, which increases the risk of camera shake.
You can find a macro conversion lens for as little as $15. Or you may see a set of lenses that can be stacked for around $40.
“Commercial Photoshop Retouching In The Studio” Review at DPNow
DPNow have just reviewed the book “Commercial Photoshop Retouching In The Studio” from O’Reilly.
“Commercial Photoshop Retouching In The Studio is aimed squarely at people who are at home with Adobe Photoshop. You don’t need the very latest version to make use of the book; most of its examples and tutorials will work with Photoshop 7.0 or even earlier releases. Honiball doesn’t assume you are a Photoshop or print press expert, either and carefully explains key concepts along the way. Besides covering topics that help you to make photos look better from a basic point of view, Honiball also covers areas involving the integration of subjects with different backgrounds and creating natural looking lighting effects. To achieve composite results, masking and extraction are covered in detail. There is also plenty of information concerning the use of Photoshop with CMYK images and how to optimise these for print press reproduction, including sections on newsprint and packaging materials.”
Website: DPNow - Commercial Photoshop Retouching In The Studio Review
Cameratown Covers PhotoPlusExpo Show
CameraTown.com writes:
PhotoPlus Expo is the largest and most comprehensive expo in the photographic and imaging industries. The show opens at the Jacob Javits Center tomorrow, October 20 and ends on Saturday, October 22, 2005. Over 200 manufacturers will showcase products that represent every aspect of the photographic workflow; from capture, color management and storage, to output and display. PhotoPlus Expo also features over 100 photography and design seminars as well as hands-on workshops.
You can view their PhotoPlus Expo coverage by clicking here.
Press Release: ACDSee Pro Photo Manager
ACD Systems announced the advanced version of their photo management software today. It will feature:
- a very easy to use and time saving interface
- multi-step batch processing
- DNG and RAW support
- color management functionality and professional publishing options
- ability to customize workspace layouts, toolbars and tabs.
ACDSee Pro will be showcased at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York (October 20-22) and will be available from January 2006 priced £129.99.
Press Release:
ACDSee Pro Photo Manager Streamlines Professional Photography Workflow
New software that helps professional photographers confidently manage their photos to be unveiled at Booth #801 during PhotoPlus Expo